Mobile Lab Helps Young Students in Greater Memphis Get Hands-On STEM Experience
In 2015, Baptist Memorial Health Care helped sponsor a LeMoyne-Owen College mobile lab designed to help get young students excited about science. This bus, known as “S ...
Posted Thursday, February 2nd 2017 at 2:05PM
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Oakwood University kicks off Black History Month tomorrow during Chapel service at 9:50 a.m. at the University Church. The program entitled "Walk With Me" is a musical narrative commemorating the 50th anniversary of the bombing of the Sixteenth Stree ...
Posted Thursday, February 2nd 2017 at 2:00PM
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Head women’s basketball coach Sheba Harris earned her 100th career coaching victory as the Lady Marauders of Central State University defeated the Lane College Dragons, 68-63, on Monday night.
At the end of the 1st quarter, LC took a 16-9 lead but ...
Posted Thursday, February 2nd 2017 at 1:24PM
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ASU's Founders' Day is Friday!
- Historic Bell Ringing Ceremony at 9 a.m. in front of the ASU Library -
- Founder's Day Convocation at 10 a.m. in the ASU Dunn-Oliver Acadome -
HISTORIC BELL RINGING CEREMONY @ 9 a.m. FRIDAY
Join us at Alabama St ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 6:19PM
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by SAMANTHA SCHNURR
Time to drop a beat, Prince Harry.
The 32-year-old royal watched with a smile Wednesday as he spent some time with young students enrolled in rap lessons at Nottingham Academy.
The classes are part of the Royal Foundati ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 1:53PM
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In gripping fashion, Coleman examines the ways that the legacies of slavery, war, sharecropping, poverty and alcoholism mask a family history of mental illness.
Monica A. Coleman shares her life-long dance with trauma, depression and the threat of ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 12:50PM
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Students toured Meharry Medical College (a BCF school), along with local United Methodist agencies and offices in Nashville, Tennessee.
From The United Methodist Church, the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry
The Lina H. McCord progra ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 12:46PM
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Voorhees College will host its annual Absalom Jones Feast Day celebration, to recognize the African American presence in the Episcopal Church, on Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 11 a.m. in St. Philip’s Episcopal Chapel.
Absalom Jones was the first ordained Afr ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 12:40PM
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The Fisk University Computer Science Club has been awarded $3,000 from the Student Seed Fund to help launch a new chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery for Women (ACM-W) on campus. Sponsored by the National Center for Women & Information ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 12:35PM
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The Lina H. McCord program welcomes eight students from United Methodist-related historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) to serve as its 2017 summer interns. The summer intern program, sponsored by the Black College Fund (BCF), a ministry ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 11:08AM
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Welcome Brenda Hatton-Ficklin!
Pine Bluff Native is New Director of Alumni Relations
Following a rigorous national search, Brenda Hatton-Ficklin of Little Rock has been selected to serve as Director of Alumni Relations at Philander Smith Colleg ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 11:02AM
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By Darran Simon, CNN
Alex Liddell Jr. sang an Al Green song as he sorted through recently dry-cleaned uniforms -- deep crimson with Carolina blue accents -- for his marching band's biggest performance ever.
Liddell, the tuba section leader of T ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 10:56AM
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The State University of New York Board of Trustees today appointed Dr. Wayne J. Riley as president of SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Dr. Riley is currently a clinical professor of Medicine and adjunct professor of Health Policy at the Vanderbilt Univ ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 10:52AM
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Concordia has once again expanded its academic reach by adding a new degree concentration to its growing list of academic programs. Students now have the option to study music with this new Associate of Arts degree with Music Concentration. The music ...
Posted Wednesday, February 1st 2017 at 10:46AM
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The New York Times Magazine published the below article about the Opportunity Scholarship students -- also known as "Dreamers" -- who have been provided access to higher education at Delaware State University. The undocumented children of illegal imm ...
Posted Tuesday, January 31st 2017 at 2:29PM
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